William G. “Bill” Rossick

From 1996 to 1999, Bill practiced law at the Houston office of an AmLaw 100 law firm (Shook, Hardy & Bacon) where he was part of a national team defending pharmaceutical cases across the country. Bill later practiced law at a medium sized regional law firm in Texas where he focused on defending hospitals in medical malpractice cases. After moving to Austin in 2003 to open up the satellite office of a Houston based insurance defense firm, Bill grew that office to include three additional attorneys focusing on toxic tort cases.

Later in 2011, Bill became the first lawyer to initiate litigation on behalf of a family whose home was destroyed in the 2011 Bastrop County Complex Fire which destroyed more than 1200 homes. That lawsuit later grew to be the largest lawsuit ever filed in Bastrop County when hundreds of other individual plaintiffs and dozens of insurance companies joined the litigation. With that progression, Bill was appointed as co-lead liaison counsel for the individual plaintiff attorney group consisting of more than a dozen separate plaintiff attorney law firms. Through these efforts, Bill successfully resolved that case on behalf of 67 families whose property was destroyed by the fire, included the family of one woman who perished in the fire.